Daniel Libeskind has created another iconic building, a museum nonetheless. Situated in San Francisco, this new Contemporary Jewish Museum is a conservation work for a Jessie Street Power Substation which had helped restore energy to the city after the great earthquake of 1906.
Inspired by a Hebrew phrase meaning ‘to life’, Libeskind contemporary design visualize the relation between old and new by incorporating the substation’s features.
One thing to note that in regards to his previous museum design in which he applied a non-straight approaches in designing the interior walls, the committee for this museum had specifically asked Libeskind to have at least one area where the walls are straight upwards in order to hang pictures correctly. He did just that. He provided only one room with clean straight walls. All other walls inside this building is perched in an angle, using various symbolism in response to the nature of hope and life. In the multipurpose room, for examples, slashes of lines etched on the surface of the walls and ceiling, drawn from 16h century map charting routes to Jerusalem.
Take a look at the pictures to understand Libeskind’s genius.
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